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I Don't Have a Happy Place
Kim Korson
其他書名
Cheerful Stories of Despondency and Gloom
出版Simon and Schuster, 2015-04-14
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / WomenBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHumor / Form / EssaysSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN14767402679781476740263
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8zbmBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋When a trip to the therapist ends with the question “Can’t Kim be happy?” Kim Korson responds the way any normal person would—she makes fun of it. Because really, does everyone have to be happy?

Aside from her father wearing makeup and her mother not feeling well (a lot), Kim Korson’s 1970s suburban upbringing was typical. Sometimes she wished her brother were an arsonist just so she’d have a valid excuse to be unhappy. And when life moves along pretty decently--she breaks into show business, gets engaged in the secluded jungles of Mexico, and moves her family from Brooklyn to dreamy rural Vermont—the real despondency sets in. It’s a skill to find something wrong in just about every situation, but Kim has an exquisite talent for negativity. It is only after half a lifetime of finding kernels of unhappiness where others find joy that she begins to wonder if she is even capable of experiencing happiness.

In I Don’t Have a Happy Place, Kim Korson untangles what it means to be a true malcontent. Rife with evocative and nostalgic observations, unapologetic realism, and razor-sharp wit, I Don’t Have a Happy Place is told in humorous, autobiographical stories. This fresh-yet-dark voice is sure to make you laugh, nod your head in recognition, and ultimately understand what it truly means to be unhappy. Always.